Comment on The bitter final showdown over British coal, as sun sets on ‘dirtiest fuel’
ElCanut@jlai.lu 5 days agoAbsolutely, we should completely stop coal mines, that’s the easiest and most effective thing to do to fight climate change, especially in rich countries that have access to cleaner alternatives.
That being said, I understand that regions where coal mining is the only activity need to be helped with it, firing hundreds of coal miners is not acceptable.
There’s a nice song from Sting about it btw, “We work the black Seam”
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 days ago
But they’re already shut and have been for decades. It’s not like they can get all those miners back, they’d be about 70 by now if they haven’t all died from horrible lung diseases.
What we needed was other industry to be set up in those towns. What we got was fuck all, and most of those places are still dead.